What does the scientific research say?
The Art of Living website has descriptions of three articles under this medical research link. One article describes a pilot study on the effects of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) on depression. This study included 15 patients with dysthymia and 15 patients with major depression. One group of participants received low pretreatment P300 event related potential (ERP) amplitude, which is similar to earlier reports with somatic treatments such as antidepressant medications and ECT (Naga Venkatesha Murthy 1998). No difference occurred those participants who received the pretreatment P300 amplitude. This demonstrates a uniform response to SKY as therapy for depression. The study also revealed that since it takes one week to learn SKY the treatment does not begin to take antidepressant effects until three weeks into the trial (Naga Venkatesha Murthy 1998). The second article that the website gives is on the effects of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga on 46 hospital outpatients with dysthymia. The patients re
